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Adaptations Webinar
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Welcome!
• Introductions
• Today’s webinar
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Review of early literacy learning model
Review of resources
Review of key training and follow-up points
Review of adaptations power point
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Review of Early Literacy Learning Model
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Review of Literacy-Rich Environments
 Contexts in which children engage in interestbased everyday literacy activities provided by
responsive adults
 All interactions with children occur in the context
of the physical environment
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Review of Child Interests
 All children have interests
 Some interests are personal interests
 Some interests are situational interests
 Children’s interests form the basis of their
learning
 Cycle of mastery – an interest can lead to
engagement in an activity, which leads to
competence and eventually mastery
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Review of Everyday Literacy Activities
 They provide opportunities for early literacy
learning
 They happen in everyday situations, whether
planned or unplanned
 They provide functional use of literacy
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Review of Responsive Teaching
 Responsive teaching is the “just right” amount of
support for young children to gain competence
in and to master early literacy skills
 It involves adults paying attention to and
responding to children, introducing new
information, and supporting and encouraging
new child behavior
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Review of Resources - General TA Page
http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_pract_main.php
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Presentations
Videos
Tools
Practice Guides
CELLcasts
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Review of Resources - Distance Learning Website
www.earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_overview.php
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Review of Key Training and Follow-up Points
• Follow the training and activity process!!
• Involve your CSPD coordinator (Montana) or
ECE Office (South Dakota)
• Make sure we receive your training participant
rosters for trainings and activities
• Follow-up with the people you train and the
people you talk to about CELL
– Reinforce the concepts you trained on or talked about
– Find out what they’re doing with information you gave
them
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What is the Adaptations PPT?
• Based on the CELL Early Literacy Learning
Model, a trainer or technical assistance provider
can utilize this PPT to introduce and illustrate a
continuum of adaptations.
• Designed to be used with professionals who
train practitioners or teachers
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Finding the Adaptations PPT
Step 1: Go to our home page –
www.earlyliteracylearning.org
and click on “General
Technical Assistance”
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Finding the Adaptations PPT
Step 2: On the General
Technical Assistance page,
click on “CELL
Presentations”
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Finding the Adaptations PPT
Step 3: On the CELL
Presentations page, click
on the Adaptations file
that you want to view
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What’s in the Adaptations PPT?
Section
Contents
Introduction to Adaptations
Definition, Continuum
Environmental Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Activity Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Material Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Instructional Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Provide Assistance
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Adaptations Considerations
Questions to Ask Yourself
Additional Exercises
Practice, Evaluate
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Introduction to Adaptations - Definition
• Modification or change made to an environment,
activity, materials or interaction to maximize a
child’s ability to participate in everyday interestbased learning opportunities
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Introduction to Adaptations - Definition
 Adaptations ensure that children with disabilities:
 Can express their interests and have them interpreted
correctly
 Can engage in early literacy activities
 Can become skillful and competent in early literacy
activities and behaviors
 Can master early literacy behaviors
 Adaptations offer the necessary support so that
children with disabilities can participate in
activities at the greatest level possible
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Introduction to Adaptations - Continuum
• Adapt Environment
• Adapt Activity
• Adapt Materials
• Adapt Instruction
• Provide Assistance
Source: Cara’s Kit, Milbourne & Campbell, 2007
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What’s in the Adaptations PPT?
Section
Contents
Introduction to Adaptations
Definition, Continuum
Environmental Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes
photos)
Activity Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Material Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Instructional Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Provide Assistance
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Adaptations Considerations
Questions to Ask Yourself
Additional Exercises
Practice, Evaluate
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Environmental Adaptations - Introduce
• Modification made to the environment to ensure
that a child can get to and participate in an
activity independently
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Environmental Adaptations - Illustrate
EXAMPLES:
 Placing books within a child’s reach by moving
them to a lower shelf
 Rearranging furniture so a child can easily walk
across the room using crutches or a wheelchair
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What’s in the Adaptations PPT?
Section
Contents
Introduction to Adaptations
Definition, Continuum
Environmental Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Activity Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes
photos), Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Material Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Instructional Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Provide Assistance
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Adaptations Considerations
Questions to Ask Yourself
Additional Exercises
Practice, Evaluate
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Activity Adaptation - Introduce
• Select an activity based on a child’s interests
and adjust the activity in ways necessary to
ensure that the child can participate in the
activity independently
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Activity Adaptation - Illustrate
• Often an adaptation to an activity involves
adding visual, kinesthetic, and auditory aids to
support the child in participating in the activity
EXAMPLES:
 Add movements to a song to keep an active
child engaged
 Add props to story time to help a child follow
along and understand the story
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Activity Adaptation - Practice
• You work with a child who loves music. The child
is able to move her arms freely, but is unable to
hold a musical instrument
• Identify an appropriate activity adaptation to
support this child’s participation in music
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What’s in the Adaptations PPT?
Section
Contents
Introduction to Adaptations
Definition, Continuum
Environmental Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Activity Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Material Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes
photos), Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Instructional Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Provide Assistance
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Adaptations Considerations
Questions to Ask Yourself
Additional Exercises
Practice, Evaluate
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Material Adaptation - Introduce
• Making modification to a material needed in the
activity for a child to easily manipulate or use the
material, enhancing his/her participation in the
activity
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Material Adaptation - Illustrate
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EXAMPLES:
Using large-grip pencils to draw a picture
Providing child-sized utensils to feed oneself
Placing non-slip shelf liner under a bowl or plate
to help a child feed herself independently
Taping paper to the table so it won’t slide and
the child is able to write and draw independently
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Material Adaptation - Practice
• Identify an adaptation for a child who is unable
to turn the pages of a book while reading with
her mother
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What’s in the Adaptations PPT?
Section
Contents
Introduction to Adaptations
Definition, Continuum
Environmental Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Activity Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Material Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Instructional Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes
photos), Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Provide Assistance
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Adaptations Considerations
Questions to Ask Yourself
Additional Exercises
Practice, Evaluate
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Instructional Adaptation - Introduce
• The adult modifies or adjusts instruction and
requirements based on the individual child so
the child can participate in the activity as
completely and independently as possible
• A few ways the adult may do this are by
reducing the steps of the activity or by extending
the length of time in which the child is expected
to perform an activity
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Instructional Adaptation - Illustrate
EXAMPLES:
 Waiting and allowing the child enough time to
respond before providing more adaptations
 Adding pictures along with print to represent the
verbal instruction
 Allowing a child to stand during an activity rather
than sit
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Instructional Adaptation - Practice
 Create a literacy-related instructional adaptation
for making play dough
 In other words, how would you adapt your
instruction for making play dough so that every
child may participate?
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What’s in the Adaptations PPT?
Section
Contents
Introduction to Adaptations
Definition, Continuum
Environmental Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Activity Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Material Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Instructional Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Provide Assistance
Introduce, Illustrate (includes
photos)
Adaptations Considerations
Questions to Ask Yourself
Additional Exercises
Practice, Evaluate
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Provide Assistance - Introduce
• An adult or a peer either provides physical
assistance or does the activity for the child
• In Cara’s Kit, Milbourne and Campbell state,
“Provide assistance only when other adaptations
have not worked, and only as a last resort.”
Source: Cara’s Kit, Milbourne & Campbell, 2007
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Provide Assistance - Illustrate
EXAMPLES:
 Providing hand-over-hand support
 Modeling for the child how to do something such
as how to draw the letter “C” and then asking
him/her to draw the letter “C” the same way
 Peer intervention where a peer models for the
child or provides some kind of physical
assistance
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What’s in the Adaptations PPT?
Section
Contents
Introduction to Adaptations
Definition, Continuum
Environmental Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Activity Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Material Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Instructional Adaptations
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos),
Practice, Evaluate, Reflect
Provide Assistance
Introduce, Illustrate (includes photos)
Adaptations Considerations
Questions to Ask Yourself
Additional Exercises
Practice, Evaluate
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Wrap-Up
• Questions and Answers
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